1 Aug
2020
1 Aug
'20
8:33 p.m.
On Sat, Aug 1, 2020, 6:16 AM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
Dave those are ANSI tape labels. Unix does not use
them DEC did
although was inconsistent with the use particularly WRT HDR2 records. Tom
Quarles (of spice 3 fame) wrote probably the best version for Unix to deal
with them. I believe I gave a copy but it will be in BSD 4.1 maybe 4.2
compiler syntax. I'll ask him if he ever updated it. Clem
How is that related to ansitar.c?
Warner
On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 3:55 AM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jul 2020, Warner Losh wrote:
--
Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
Weren't V5/6/7/etc distributed as
bootable tapes? Set the switch
register to point to the tape instead of the disk...
Yes. They were. We have V6 and V7 tapes (and a V5 disk image). Likely
earlier versions likely did too. What I'd meant was that 2.8BSD is the
first 2BSD that had a bootable tape.
Ah, my mistake.
I think the loader also read just the first block, so woe betide you if
you used a labelled tape...
If I recall, VOL1, HDR1, etc.
-- Dave